A tourist from New Zealand was stabbed and wounded in downtown Vancouver in what appears to have been a random attack. Police are looking for a short man of medium complexion who was wearing a blue baseball cap.
In other news, it is estimated that the recent riots in France cost insurance companies €650 million.
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398 People Robbed in Chicago in July So Far as New Mayor Makes Lightfoot Look Good
Chicago threw old Mayor Lori Lightfoot out with the trash in the last election but had a stark choice to make. Elect a tough-on-crime candidate or hand the city over to Brandon Johnson.
They chose Johnson and if the first few months of his tenure are any indication, it will be a long four years for that great American city.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) can’t believe the Secret Service could not find the owner of the bag of cocaine found in the West Wing of the White House and is demanding drug tests for all 500 suspects.
She said: “American citizens every single day go through drug tests…they do it for their jobs. This is a common practice. Just speaking with the Secret Service now. My question to them was, they were able to narrow down a list of approximately 500 people that had left a small bag of cocaine.”
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Biden’s FTC Pressured Analysts to Give Negative Report on Elon Musk’s Twitter: Lawsuit
It has been revealed that the Federal Trade Commission under President Joe Biden attempted to get consulting multinational giant Ernst & Young (EY) to produce a negative report on Twitter shortly after it was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk in the fall of 2022.
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Biden’s DOJ Quietly Scrubs Entire Sections on Child Sex Trafficking From Website: Report
The Department of Justice has quietly scrubbed the section of its website dedicated to providing information about child sex trafficking. Entire sections have been removed, seemingly with no explanation.
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Biden Stumbles Trying to Board Air Force One Following Leaders Summit
President Biden appeared to stumble while going up a flight of stairs to board Air Force One on Thursday.
Biden was boarding the presidential airplane in Helsinki, where he met with Nordic leaders following a two-day NATO summit in Lithuania.
Video showed Biden stumble slightly on a step roughly halfway up and quickly recover in stride before reaching the top of the stairs, where he turned and waved to onlookers on the tarmac at Helsinki-Vantaan International Airport.
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Breaking: Trump to Host Screening of Sound of Freedom on July 19
Donald Trump has announced that he will be hosting a screening of the anti-child trafficking film Sound of Freedom on July 19 at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. The event will be open to club members and supporters
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Breaking: Secret Service Says ‘No Suspect’ in White House Cocaine Scandal
The Secret Service has reportedly concluded its investigation into the bag of cocaine that was discovered in the White House. But no suspect has been identified, according to two sources, per CNN.
The Secret Service looked through visitor logs and surveillance footage of those who came into the West Wing in the days leading up to the discovery, but they came up short.
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Breaking: Byron Donalds Would ‘Of Course’ Accept Role to be Trump’s VP
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) has revealed that he would gladly accept an invitation to be Donald Trump’s vice president if the former leader wins the Republican nomination.
In an interview with Breitbart, the Florida congressman said the opportunity would allow him to “really help shape the country.”
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Following a Secret Service briefing on Thursday, Republican Representative Lauren Boebert announced that cocaine discovered at the White House on July 2 was not the first time drugs were found at Biden’s White House.
Boebert said: “There’s a list of more than 500 individuals that they looked into their backgrounds for prior drug records or use, and nothing was determined from their analysis.
“And the Secret Service is very eager to close this within the next couple of days. This is the third time that drugs have been found on the White House property since 2022, and we did not even hear about the marijuana.”
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As the spotlight continues to intensify on allegations of censorship by Big Tech, recently revealed emails from Vijaya Gadde, former Twitter executive and member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation Subcommittee, have fueled concerns. The emails, disclosed by the Functional Government Initiative watchdog and obtained by the Washington Examinersuggest that Gadde had proposed collaboration with several entities, including the controversial Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
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Alex Soros’ own words indicate he’ll be “even more radically leftist than his father” as he takes control of the family empire that backs liberal politicians, according to a study of rhetoric and social media activity.
The Media Research Center extensively researched “previous radical statements” made by the 37-year-old son of George Soros who recently took control of the mammoth multi-billion dollar Open Society Foundations (OSF).
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Geraldo Rivera Trashes ‘Toxic’ Fox Co-Host, Says He Will Never Forgive Tucker Carlson
Geraldo Rivera got bitter on “The View” over his firing from Fox News hit show “The Five” by trashing an unnamed male co-host and saying he would never forgive Tucker Carlson.
Geraldo said: “I was fired from ‘The Five’. I had a very toxic relationship with another of the cast members so I got a call from two of the female executives and they said ‘you’re off “The Five.”‘“
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Congressional Republicans have uncovered smoking gun evidence against Dr. Anthony Fauci regarding the origins of COVID-19.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic accused Fauci of engaging in a cover-up.
The findings were revealed during a hearing titled “Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up,” as Slay News reported earlier.
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SAG-AFTRA announced Thursday that it is on strike against the film and TV companies. This is the second time in Hollywood history that actors have joined writers to go on strike. The writers have been on strike for a month or so.
The strike will impact 160,000 union members and will begin at midnight tonight. The union’s national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said that the talks left the union “with no choice”
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Is the FTC the Latest Agency to be Weaponized Against Free Speech?
Twitter, helmed by Elon Musk, has petitioned a federal court to annul an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) addressing alleged privacy infringements, describing the FTC’s investigative approach as “burdensome and vexatious.”
In a similar way that accusations have been leveled at the FBI when it comes to suppressing speech, X Corp’s (Twitter’s parent company) move has followed allegations that the FTC is being weaponized against Twitter after Musk’s proposals to create a free speech platform. The FTC was also today accused of potentially violating the First Amendment over the demands it made of Twitter.
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Megyn Kelly Busts Eric Swalwell Telling Lie: “Every Single Word of That is a Lie, He is So Dumb”
Megyn Kelly busted California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s telling a lie during Wednesday’s Congressional hearing before calling him “so dumb.”
Swalwell tried to defend Hunter Biden’s shady personal and professional behavior saying the infamous laptop had “nonconsensual nudes” on it. Megyn said:
“He doesn’t get me that worked up because he is so dumb and so not worth spending time on but this one’s just like, I love every single word of that is a lie.”
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Need for ‘Boots on the Ground’ Sends Mass. Firefighters to Canada to Combat Wildfires
Battling forest fires isn’t unusual for Robin Armstrong, but the sheer size of the blaze he faced in Canada was eye-opening.
Armstrong, of Conway, a firefighter with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, recently returned from a 14-day trip to Quebec to help fight wildfires that have burned at least 19.5 million acres since early June.
Armstrong and 11 others were the first Massachusetts-based group to head to Canada under the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact. That agreement, created in 1949, joins firefighters from all six New England states and New York with five provinces in eastern Canada to control and extinguish wildfires, said Dave Celino, chief fire warden for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation.
“We share resources and what they really need is boots on the ground,” Celino said. “You can have all the technology, but in the end you need a firefighter with hand tools cutting fire lines to keep fires from spreading.”
Last month, Armstrong deployed with a crew of 10 other firefighters from the DCR. They were joined by one more firefighter from Vermont.
That group returned after two weeks battling blazes. Now, a second crew of 21 firefighters that left July 5 is in Canada assisting with the fires.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has made a name for himself overseeing an office that has been widely criticized for being too soft on criminals, often releasing repeat offenders who then go on to terrorize the town yet again.
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Police Release New Details in West TN Clinic Shooting; Suspect Charged With Murder
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Collierville Police have charged the man they say is responsible for fatally shooting a surgeon at Campbell Clinic Tuesday.
Larry Pickens, 29, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault. His bond has been set at $1.2 million and he is scheduled to be arraigned in the Collierville Town Court Thursday.
Campbell Clinic identified the victim as orthopedic surgeon Dr. Benjamin Mauck. He also worked as a surgeon at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Information released by Collierville Police on Wednesday afternoon provided new details on the incident. According to police, officers arrived at the scene on Poplar Avenue just after 2 p.m.
A nurse told officers that Pickens was a patient who was being treated by Mauck when he allegedly pulled a gun from his waistband and fired three shots at Mauck. The nurse said she was familiar with Pickens from previous visits to the clinic.
When police arrived, they found Mauck dead in an exam room with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest and upper abdomen.
Multiple employees identified Pickens, who ran out of the building. Officers found him outside on Poplar with a gun. he was ordered to the ground and taken into custody without incident.
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Police Commissioner Caught in Car With Prostitute Has Bizarre Explanation: ‘Done Talking About It’
A member of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners who was caught in a car with a prostitute by law enforcement is claiming that the incident is a “big misunderstanding.”
Wayne County Sheriff’s Office deputies say they found Bryan Ferguson in his car at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday in Detroit engaging in a sex act with a prostitute, the Detroit Free Press reported. Undercover narcotics officers were in the area at that time and saw Ferguson with a woman who was known to them.
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Portland Man Released Without Bail After Allegedly Killing 11-Year-Old, Fleeing Gang Shootout
A drunk driver who was speeding while heading to the hospital after a gang shootout allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy in a collision and was released from custody within a day and without bail after being charged with first-degree manslaughter.
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PublicSq, a Freedom-Focused Competitor to Amazon, Plans to Go Public
In a move aimed at challenging the e-commerce hegemony, PublicSq., a marketplace platform grounded in principles of freedom, is preparing to make its debut on the stock market. The company’s CEO recently revealed their plans for an initial public offering (IPO), scheduled for July 20.
Unlike conventional online marketplaces, PublicSq. carves its own path by embodying the motto “shop your values, locally and online.”
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Seeing ‘Slow Pace’ of Campaign, Top Democrats Prepping in ‘Quiet’ to Replace Biden: Report
According to a new CNN report, a growing number of “top Democrats and donors” are reaching out to potential replacements for President Biden as the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Deploys Additional State Troopers to Austin After City Suspends Partnership
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday said he was sending 30 additional state troopers to Austin after city officials, with the blessing of Mayor Kirk Watson, suspended its partnership over a controversial traffic stop.
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Thunderbird Introduces New Version With Updated Design
Thunderbird has long been a stalwart in the realm of free and open source email clients, with its dependable service and intuitive functionalities. The developers have just released the much-anticipated Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” — a modernized, feature-rich makeover of this tried-and-true software that retains its comforting familiarity while pushing the boundaries of innovation and user experience.
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Trump Gets Win as Rupert Murdoch ‘Smells a Loser’ With DeSantis, Turns Against Florida Governor
President Donald Trump just scored a big win over his rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new report.
The report, from Rolling Stone, says Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch is turning on DeSantis and is looking for a new 2024 candidate to back because he “smells a loser” with the Republican governor.
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Tourist Stabbed in Random Attack in Downtown Vancouver
The 28-year-old New Zealand man was allegedly stabbed by a stranger on the corner of Nelson and Granville Streets Wednesday night
Police say a tourist was hurt in a random stabbing in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old visitor from New Zealand was stabbed by a stranger on the corner of Nelson and Granville Streets in the Granville entertainment district just before 8 p.m.
He took himself to hospital for treatment of his injuries, which were not life-threatening.
“From what we know so far, this attack appears to be completely random and unprovoked,” said Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Const. Tania Visintin in a news release.
Investigators are looking a man about 5-foot-5 inches tall with a medium complexion. He was wearing a white T-shirt, dark jeans, and blue baseball cap.
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Amazon Pushes Back on EU’s New Censorship Law
In an interesting movie, Amazon has voiced dissent against the European Union’s forthcoming regulations aimed at curbing online “disinformation.” The retail and tech colossus lodged a formal petition to the General Court in Luxembourg, contesting certain aspects of the rules, as per information initially divulged by the Financial Times.
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Communist Chinese Spy Infiltrated UK Parliament Meeting for Exiled Hong Kong Activists: Claim
A spy for the Communist Chinese is suspected of having infiltrated a meeting of British lawmakers and exiled Hong Kong dissidents in the House of Commons earlier this month.
At an invite-only meeting in a top-floor parliamentary committee room on July 5th hosted by Conservative MP Bob Seely, an unnamed man apparently entered the typically secured area posing as a tourist.
The meeting, which was open to over 200 invited MPs and peers, journalists, and Hong Kong dissidents — some of whom covered their faces out of safety concerns — was intended to discuss the current situation in the former British colony, according to the Daily Mail.
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Erdogan Puts Sweden’s NATO Membership on Hold Until October
Ankara and Stockholm finally reached an agreement on lifting the Turkish veto on Sweden’s NATO accession bid but the Turkish Parliament will not ratify the application until the end of its summer recess, President Erdogan said at a press conference on Wednesday, July 12th. Erdogan clarified that, in the meantime, Sweden still has to implement the ‘extra requirements’ that are now driving a wedge between members of the government coalition, since the deal struck between Turkey and Sweden was agreed upon by the moderate PM Kristerssen—without the consent of the conservative Sweden Democrats (SD).
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EU Nature Restoration Law Set to Reignite Dutch Farmer Protests
The EU’s Nature Restoration Law (NRL) passed yesterday, July 12th, and is throwing fuel onto the fire of the long-simmering Dutch emissions dispute. This morning, the Netherlands’ largest farmers’ lobby said that the legislation would only aggravate further protests.
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French Riots Cost Insurers Estimated €650 Million
The damage caused by riots that engulfed more than 200 cities across France in the wake of Nahel Merzouk’s death is estimated to cost insurers a head-spinning €650 million, more than three times the amount registered following the 2005 riots, and well over double the amount previously anticipated, data from France Insurers has revealed.
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German Regional Spy Agency Declares AfD Youth ‘Right-Wing Extremists’
As the populist-conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to surge in national polls, the party finds itself again being scrutinised by the German state and its domestic spy agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in the region of Brandenburg has now declared that the youth wing of the AfD, the Junge Alternative (JA), is to be classified as a right-wing extremist group, which could have huge repercussions for the group in the region, a report from Die Welt notes.
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Germany: Idiot Climate Activists Who ‘Glued’ Themselves to Road Might Require Amputation
A duo of moronic climate change activists in Germany who used a concrete mixture to glue their hands to asphalt may need to have their hands amputated, reports circulating on social media claim.
Footage going viral on Twitter shows two female activists standing around with their hands still encased in a chunk of asphalt after being freed.
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Poll: Less Than Half of Czechs Trust EU; Trust in NATO & UN Plummets
The new poll has revealed that trust in the EU, NATO, and the UN among Czechs is falling sharply, highlighting the growing discontentamong the working and middle classes as they struggle to cope with inflation and the cost of living hikes brought on first by the pandemic and now compounded by sanctions related to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Proton Drive Desktop Client Arrives on Windows
The digital storage market, long dominated by tech behemoths like Google and Dropbox, is seeing a fresh entrant in the form of Proton Drive, a cloud-based storage solution. The Swiss company, known as Proton, is best recognized for its deep commitment to user privacy and security. Beginning with their widely appreciated email service, ProtonMail, the firm has progressively introduced a suite of products including a VPN, a calendar, a premium password manager, and most recently, a cloud storage solution, Proton Drive.
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Spain: Weak Debate Sinks Socialists and Lifts Conservatives
Spain’s conservative Partido Popular (PP) is pulling ahead in opinion polls following a strong performance by party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo in a live TV debate with the prime minister. This has increased the likelihood of a grand coalition of the Spanish Right consisting of the PP and VOX. Spain is just 10 days out from snap elections, called by socialist PM Pedro Sanchez and his PSOE party, after poor results in regional elections in May.
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Swedish Muslims Not Amused by Quran Burning Joke
A Swedish comedian has been receiving death threats on social media after he made a joke about recent controversial protests that involved burning the Quran, wrote the local Nyheter Idag on Monday, July 10th. Although the object of mockery was the typical Swedish mentality, and not Islam or the act itself, the Muslim community’s reaction was volatile, reminiscent of the turmoil caused by the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy nearly two decades ago.
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Unearthed History Comes Back to Haunt Finnish Politicians
Finnish politics has been hit lately with a series of revelations of disturbing or unsavory behaviors exhibited by top politicians earlier in their lives; in some cases decades ago.
Last week, an unflattering photo of Antti Lindtman, a top Finnish social democrat who was set to succeed former Prime Minister Sanna Marin, surfaced, showing him—along with several other naked men in balaclavas—some of whom appeared to be doing the Nazi salute, the Helsinki-based tabloid newspaper Iltalehtireported.
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Doctors Re-Attach Boy’s Head After Car Accident in Miracle Surgery
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and reattached a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike.
Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered an internal decapitation, where the skull detaches from the top vertebrae of the spine, or a bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation.
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Kyiv Placated With Security Guarantees in Lieu of NATO Accession
As the door to rapid NATO accession has been slammed shut for Ukraine, the G7 countries are instead promising long-term support for the nation at war.
From now on, NATO and Ukraine will meet in the NATO-Ukraine Council “to discuss and decide as equals,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the first meeting of the newly created body, meant to upgrade Kyiv-NATO relations, as he wrapped up NATO’s two-d
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Lavrov: Russia Will Regard F-16s as a “Nuclear” Threat
Russia will view the Western supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as “a threat in the nuclear sphere” due to the aircraft’s ability to carry nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Russian daily Lenta.ru, published on Wednesday, July 12th.
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Russia Claims They Had Hour-Long Call With CIA Director on ‘What Should be Done About Ukraine’
The director of Russia’s foreign intelligence service claimed he had an hour-long call with CIA director William Burns to talk about the Wagner rebellion and “what should be done about Ukraine”.
Following previous claims that CIA director William Burns proactively reached out to Moscow following the shortlived insurrection by the Wagner mercenaries last month to reassure Russia that the United States wasn’t sponsoring the uprising, Burns’ opposite number claims that event was actually just a “pretext” for the conversation. In a statement published by Russian state media, the spy boss claimed the majority of the call was not about the Wagner uprising at all, and actually discussed “Ukraine and events around it”.
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Russian Official Rejects Ukrainian Claims on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
‘You have to be a complete idiot to plan an explosion at station,’ says Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev
The head of the Rosatom nuclear power company on Thursday rejected Ukraine’s claims that Russia intended to damage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
“You have to be a complete idiot to plan an explosion at the station when you have 3,500 people directly working there every day,” Alexey Likhachev said in an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin.
Likhachev further said many personnel from Russia are at the plant in order to help with technological and safety issues, as well as to work in the development of the city of Enerhodar, which has been under Russian control since March 2022.
He also said that four experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the power plant were shown around and they made “an absolutely accurate conclusion that the station does not bear signs of mining.”
He went on to claim that there are signs that an attack on the plant was prepared by Ukraine, based on “both the intelligence of our Armed Forces and testimonies, including those of captured saboteurs.”
Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on the claim, and independent verification of claims by both Russia and Ukraine is difficult due to the ongoing war.
On July 4, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an evening address that Ukrainian intelligence has information on objects allegedly resembling explosives being placed on the roof of several power units of the plant “perhaps to simulate an attack.”
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WEF: ‘Digital Cash’ Will Force Climate Agenda Onto Public
World Economic Forum (WEF) members are celebrating the emergence of “digital cash” as governments around the globe prepare for “cashless societies.”
During the WEF’s “Summer Davos” event in China last month, attendees were buzzing about the advancement of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
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A young family were forced to live in their car after spiralling rent prices and a lack of social support left them without a home.
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Nightmare for Families as Another Home Builder Suddenly Collapses
A West Australian home builder has gone into liquidation leaving 13 homes unfinished.
The domino-like collapse of builders continues with many unable to afford the costs of materials.
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Costco Deals Blow to Bud Light, Gives Brand ‘Star of Death”
Bud Light got the worst kind of bad news from Costco and has been given the “star of death” by the retail giant.
If you’re not aware of how Costco works, their star of death appears when an item will not be restocked once it sells through. The star is an asterisk in the upper right-hand corner of the price tag and tells customers this is the last chance to buy the item.
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The largest public school district in Washington State is referring students in the district to free “gender-affirming care.”
The Nova Wellness Center and the Meany Health Center offer “gender reaffirming care,” including hormone-blocking medications and referrals for sex change surgeries, which are available to middle and high school students in Seattle Public Schools (SPS).
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A teacher in the Olympia School District was privately communicating with a 10-year-old student about her gender identity, and even invited the girl to her house and suggested she set up a private email account and delete messages, “…otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly.”
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Transgender Cyclist Wins Women’s Race to Prove Point, Rips Other Trans Athletes as ‘Selfish’
Na Hwa-rin, a biological male, says she felt at just the age of 7 that she should have been born a female.
Na, 37, transitioned last year, and is now officially recognized as a woman under South Korean law.
A lifelong cyclist, she wanted to continue racing, and after her gender change, she did so against biological women. However, Na did so not to compete herself and feel the euphoric feeling of victory, but to prove a point.
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EMPIRE OF LIES
Col Douglas Macgregor
The Government Lied About The Ukraine-Russia War!
https://swebbtube.se/w/cbS9gN67ZaEGVz3rVaPGVc
I think insurance is going to be unobtainable in Muslim zones after this. Welcome to the third world.
I wonder if anyone else stumbled over this. I’ve been wondering for a while already why there is no information covering vaccination statistics from the time through the recent COVID crisis specifically pertaining to islamic countries. Or was there and I overlooked it? Alternatively, I could make up my own theory and wonder no more…
Airman Textiera will serve decades in prison for revealing the actual views of our government and not the lies pedaled by D.C. about our Ukraine war.
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The French “George Floid Noment”
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